Expo-Agro hosts a Conference on the role of the Alhóndiga in the fruit and vegetable sector

07 April 2011

Within the framework of Expo-Agro Almería 2011 a farming Conference on 'the role of the Alhóndigas today, an instrumental project to intensive agriculture', have been organized by Ecohal, Mabel Salinas, Secretary general of the environment, Rural and marine, he emphasized the fundamental role of the Alhóndigas in the sector, "what happened here in the 1960s, it began with the auction ', recalled."

It also expressed its satisfaction for the institutional support that is being given to the fair, with the presence of the Minister of Agriculture of the Board or the Minister of the environment, Rural and marine, and with events of great significance as the signing of the 'Almeria Declaration'.

As future challenges, the general Secretary pointed to the strengthening of the sector in the area of concentration, growth and quality by saying that "you are already doing, but we must continue along these lines so that there is no such fragmentation that it does not benefit the sector".

José Antonio Gutiérrez, organizer of the day and consultant for Agroiris, stressed that the Alhóndigas "are they being modernized and there is a profound evolution." "They are also centres of fourth and fifth range of marketing and are key."

The speakers were José Francisco Salazar Mato, Professor of the Department of Economics applied of the University of Almería (UAL), which dealt with the management of the fruit and vegetable quality, José Angel Aznar Sánchez, lecturer in the Department of applied economics of the UALwhose talk focused on the history, present and prospects of the Alhóndigas, and Emilio González Gómez, Professor of the Department of applied economics of the LAU, who spoke on 'Economic and social components of the Alhóndigas'.